they the senegalese people will be dion the winners and the chosen president will also be the president of all the senegalese i hope this president will be myself and i pray for that. well it. is in the capital dhaka for us so they have gone so far nichols. it's gone pretty well i mean we're at this polling station. we're just a stone's throw away from the presidential palace and this is a hold of the opposition and since this morning six o'clock we've seen people lining up to come and cast their vote despite a call from former president to boycott this election really people came out in numbers to try to express themselves because at stake is not just the future of the future president of this country but the future of senegal itself just recently barbara there was an oil discovery of an estimated value of fifteen billion dollars

now this could change the future of this country barbara. well it's interesting also in the campaign of course you have the incumbent president the president of the vote saying that basically it's an economic success story not quite the story told by the opposition how do most people there feel about it. it's interesting that you point this out barbara because i was just talking to you to two first time voters and they were saying that bringing economic wealth isn't good enough for them they want more than that and the stifling of the of the political scene here in senegal has really affected young people a new legislation was put into place just before this election that gives more power to the government to clamp down on the internet that's something that's very unpopular amongst young people who have taken to social media before this election calling for a presidential debate that did the debate didn't take place despite this call for for

a presidential debate why well despite this long tradition of democracy and open discussion that you have in this country you do not have public confrontation especially younger people confronting el. but added are changing and we can see this here in senegal where the majority of the people are born after two thousand the median age is nineteen and most of them have experienced only two presidents. age ninety two and monkey fifty seven now there's just three hours left before the polling stations will closed but we've seen and we continue to see many young people streaming in wanting to make their vote count barbara well definitely check in with you when the polling and see when we might start getting some results for the moment in senegal thank you. still to come in this half hour a passenger plane makes an emergency landing in bangladesh after an attempted hijacking and pope francis calls priests who abuse children tours of satan but many

survivors disappointed after his conference to tackle the problem. and now the rain is just about gone now from china it's this cloud his drifting across time one behind it a bit of a gap the stuff coming out of the tibetan plateau will be the biggest name for the high ground reach in sichuan this could develop in the middle of southern china we might see a little bit of rain in the next day or so i don't think it amount to much to be honest but occasional showers hong kong remains dry shanghai remains dry. proserpine not least on late tuesday west of all the same lines of last tuesday expect the same sort of weather we've got certainly some outbreaks a snowy weather in the high grounds of tibet and plateau but this here hints at

potential showers in west bengal and also bangladesh and there they are in the forecast kolkata in the mess there and if anything you've got two days of the increasing risk the same is true up through new delhi and beyond to rain most likely wrong and snow but also the little bit of old now the arabian peninsula the breeze is a northern neighbor not that strong monday down across bahrain qatar that's was a u.a.e. that it turns around it's a suddenly this is warmer weather center is in the middle thirty's from mecca and medina but in the middle twenty's doha and rising in riyadh what cloud there is is just a northern side of the case no showers possible but probably is dry. from sunrise to sunset cross asia. the pacific explorer i'm told fascinating stories one on one east on al-jazeera.

he was sent to jail but under two different prime minister is. now he is set to become the next prime minister of malaysia. and why abraham discusses what direction his country will take. to al-jazeera. on offer a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera venezuela's opposition leader one why bill is calling on the international community to keep all options open for saturday's violent border clashes over american aid at least two people were killed in efforts to get supplies into the country failed the un says

a record number of afghan civilians were killed in two thousand and eighteen due to an increase in suicide bombings and aerial attacks three thousand eight hundred and four civilians died in the conflict last year nine hundred twenty seven of them children and senegal is voting for its next leader president sallies seeking a second term and faces four main rivals through his bid polls close in a couple of hours time. observers say as many as thirty five people thirty five people were killed in election violence in the area and saturday votes are being counted in the closely for general election it is expected to be a tight race between president mohamed bihari and his main rival. voters queued for hours into the night or polling stations and opened late because of violence or ballot machines malfunctioned a handful of these opened again on sunday to make up for the delays john holl is following developments from. well the first official comment is out we've heard

from the chairman of the independent electoral commission i nec confirming what many suspected that this election is not in fact entirely over he confirmed that some polling stations through the course of saturday were forced to overrun into sunday because they opened too late to finish on the day he said that voting in many places you still ongoing or has just finished he also confirmed that some polling stations weren't able to open at all because of tech technical malfunctions or a combination of violence and intimidation at the polls he didn't say how many nor did he say whether or when votes would need to be rescheduled in those places and whether that would affect the outcome speaking of which he said counting continues at the state and local level as early as this evening after six pm it is possible that one or two states might declare their results they'll be announced here at the central collation center that out of thirty five is not going to give and indeed indication of the final result of course that may still be

a few days away but as long as this process continues to be extended the more concerns will rise about the possibility of a disputed result not just because of the events and mishaps of saturday but because of course of that delay to the vote last week it is not the outcome many nigerians would have hoped to be looking at in the aftermath of this election and one leading observer group that we've been speaking to jaeger has passed its comment saying this was not the election nigerians expected nor the election nigerians deserved gunmen in mali have killed at least eight chadli and un peacekeepers in a military base in the north of the country the attack took place at a base in hawk area early on sunday morning the united nations has condemned the attack and this call for a robust response several peacekeepers and gunmen were also killed in a separate attack at a camp in the calling code a region in western mali. leaders from a european union and arab league countries have gathered in egypt for their first

ever joint summit the two day meeting which has just kicked off in sharm el sheikh will focus on migration security and business deals yemen and syria are also on the agenda president to order the egyptian coast guard to pick up refugees and migrants leaving libya and take them back to the african mainland to ensure they don't become europe's responsibility authorities in bangladesh have detained the suspect who they say attempted to hijack a passenger plane the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at bangladesh is chittagong airport local media say all a hundred forty two passengers got off the plane safely after it landed the boeing triple seven was set to fly to divide in the u.a.e. then via chadri has more details a listener for. an attempted hijacking off a banger that's been on bond for dubai has ended resulting in the death of the

hijacker this is according to bangladesh military official talking to the media now they're one hundred forty two passenger and seven crew members all passenger and crew member are safe the b.g. one four seven a boeing seven three seven eight hundred flight was bound for the right at some point and returned to the arm on an international airport in chile gone polled city landed safely all passengers and cabin crew are safe the hijackers morty or his nationality is still not known so far what the officials are telling that the flight operation at the international airport has resume and things are under control. an indian police officer has been killed in a soldier critically injured in a gun battle in indian administered kashmir is this strict at least three fighters also are also believed to have been killed meanwhile shops and businesses in the region have shut down in protest against the crackdown on separatists leaders police and paramilitary soldiers are patrolling the streets in the main city of

srinagar in anticipation of possible street demonstrations tension in the region is already high after a suicide bomb killed at least forty indian security personnel last week. the head of the roman catholic church has called for an all out battle against the abuse of minors pope francis made the pledge on the fourth and final day of an unprecedented conference on sex abuse within the church he promised to review guidelines for bishops to prevent abuse in the future and to look at increasing the punishment for perpetrators or a challenge has more now from vatican city. in his speech at the end of this historic four day meeting at the vatican on sexual abuse in the catholic church but francis said that abuses were tools of satan they were ravenous wolves and that we find ourselves before a brazen manifestation of the spirits of evil he said the abuse will be addressed with the utmost seriousness we can listen to a bit more of what he had to say right now in contrast though. it is utterly

incompatible with the moral authority and ethical credibility of those persons chosen by god to guide souls to salvation to let themselves be dominated by their human frailty or sickness and thus they become tools of satan with their problem and that well although these were undeniably strong words they certainly didn't satisfy the survivors of sexual abuse who have been here in rome to see what's been going on they were very angry after listening to it by frances they said that it amounts to a paedophiles charter that what they wanted to hear zero tolerance for abusive priests and zero tolerance for those who've covered up that abuse wasn't mentioned by the pipe when it didn't come up in this four day meeting and they think that this amounts to a paedophiles charter that because these priests and bishops and and clergy are not being threatened with being thrown out of the priesthood that gives them carte

blanche to go back to their countries and carry on abusing carry on covering it up . this meeting though it was never about definitive concrete action to be decided here and now it was always going to have follow up meetings and follow up consultation and the pope is hoping that it's in that process coming next that a practical handbook can be drawn up for dealing with this issue across the catholic world cubans are getting the opportunity to vote on a new constitution for the first time in decades sundays poll marks a historic day for the communist country and unprecedented two million people are expected to voice their opposition to the government ready in a sanchez has more now from having a. protestant cuba pray for divine guidance. and for cubans to vote no on sunday's constitutional referendum. don't stay home don't leave your vote blank you know what you have to put on the ballot. religious

groups say the new constitution may eventually allow same sex marriage. the proposed constitution has not respected the people's opinion on the issue of marriage and family and. this sort of dissent is unprecedented in cuba and it's not restricted to moral values the draft constitution brings in more freedoms to trade buy property and attract foreign investment it even sets presidential term limits but communism remains and try and as cuba's guiding force many here say the changes are the most significant since the cold war era but critics say ratifying the proposal will only serve to perpetuate the communist one party system for those pushing for a no vote the shadow of fetal castro remains in these pages islamist my things by qualifying it has the state in societies guiding force it puts the party above the rest of the institutions recognized by the constitution and that's

a threat against any democratic process. the no campaign complains it hasn't been given enough air time compared to its government financed opponents. i am voting yes cuba is voting yes we are voting yes for this would be the best constitution cubans ever had. the foundations for socialism have to be there we fought for that many years and now there are new things like private property it's the best in every way. it's thought close to twenty five percent of cubans are likely to vote against the draft but win or lose sunday will be a historic day it will be the first time cubans can say no to a government proposal out in the open and innocent just and just see to have on a cuba while it's the biggest event in tinseltown the ninety first academy awards will kick off in hollywood later on sunday reynolds looks at the films in the

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